Athens, I love you.

I came across this video a couple days ago (via my friend, Erin) and was reminded again that Athens, GA truly is the greatest town in the world. It really doesn't even begin to capture half of the beauty that is Athens (mostly because it only focuses on downtown Athens)! The food, the music, the fashion and shopping, the history, the campus, the dawgs, the busy-ness of a small college town amidst the serene quiet of a surrounding gorgeous, rural landscape...

Athens has been receiving a lot of press recently. While I am glad that the world is finally beginning to notice just how wonderful this city is and is giving it the credit it deserves, I also hope it can stay under the radar as a small country town and America's best kept secret. I also stumbled across this article written about Athens in The New York Times, and this short video from MTV.

Athens, I love you, and I can't wait to be reunited with you and all of your sights and sounds... oh yeah and the people that you have, too ;)

Update: I finally got to watch the whole MTV video, and realized that Andrew and I are IN the video! Okay not really... but where they talk about The Grit (our favorite restaurant) and they film 3 people talking about it, we are sitting at a table in the bottom left corner. We were there that day watching and listening to everything they were saying, wondering what they were filming. Literally we were so close it was awkward, and we couldn't really have a conversation because we thought the camera would pick it up. Anyways- too cool!

saturdays in Athens are unlike saturdays anywhere else

so many fields to stargaze in, train tracks to pray down, creeks to swim in, trails to get lost on

nothing says southern like flannel and hay rides

we spent countless nights at this table at Trapeze

(see above, and know there are dozens more...)

the famous arches, in a town small enough to cause a scene but big enough to get away with it ;)

the most beautiful campus

one of my best friends, Marilisa, and I at our very first football game as freshmen

and at our very last (as students) as seniors

the best downtown- small enough to master the streets and try every restaurant, big enough not to get bored

i was always given the best places to live with great backyards where we could do things like have a "Hook" themed banquet and food fight :)

the most beautiful neighborhood streets and historic homes

and the list goes on and on...

xo